Turkey Warns US of Growing Syria Kurdish Territory in Aleppo

Every time the Kurdish YPG makes gains in northern Syria, usually at the expense of ISIS, the US ends up in an awkward position, cheering an ally for gains against ISIS, but also facing a backlash from neighboring Turkey, who objects to the Kurdish growth.

This is continuing again this week, with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford being warned that Turkey believes the Kurds are creating a “corridor” in Aleppo Province, from ISIS-held Jarabulus to al-Qaeda-held Azaz, and that Turkey won’t tolerate this.

Turkey has long declared the Euphrates River a “red line,” and warned the Kurds must never cross it. But with both the US and Russia backing YPG advances against Islamists, they eventually did. Turkish officials are inconsolable about it.

Turkish officials say their concern is for Syrian “territorial integrity,” but as they’ve openly backed Islamist rebels for years that seems unlikely, and rather the primary concern is that age-old Turkish problem, Kurdish secessionist ambitions across the region, including in Turkey.

Author: Jason Ditz

Since the source of this is Kurdish, and there's no mention of it anywhere else, it is most probably a story fabricated for propaganda purposes. Seeking to discredit one's enemy is a classic tactic and I don't see why the Kurds would be so stupid as not to use it. Indeed, the very fact that this article appears on this website is an example of the same tactic (as is Curmudgeonvt's comment above). Turkey has dared to prove that Vlad the Invincable isn't invincible!

David Smith

Amazing how everything comes back to Putin.

legal eagle

After Turkey's cowardly attack on the Russian SU-24 and the subsequent murder of a pilot it would be only fitting for Turkey to violate Syrian airspace in a threatening manner so The Russian S-400 batteries can lock onto them and "payback is a beatch"/ They have all been forewarned by Russia, and if they think they are bluffing then Turkey should be the one to test that theory and get their just deserts.